Thick Stone (Piesdorf)

Thick stone
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Coordinates	51 ° 39 '39.9 " N , 11 ° 39' 12.2" E Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '39.9 " N , 11 ° 39' 12.2" E
place	Könnern , OT Piesdorf , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany

The big stone is an erect boulder and possibly a prehistoric menhir near Piesdorf , a district of Könnern in the Salzlandkreis , Saxony-Anhalt .

Location and description

The stone is located about 240 m south of Piesdorf on the east side of the road leading to Gerbstedt . He stands directly on the border of two fields.

Despite its striking location and the long history of research on the menhirs in the Saale area , the stone is not mentioned in older publications. In the 1990s and 2000s it was only referred to as a boulder in geological articles. The soil monuments list published in 2016 by the state of Saxony-Anhalt lists it as a menhir, which may originally have crowned a burial mound that has now been leveled .

The stone consists of brown coal quartzite and is unprocessed. The northern long side is uneven and blistered. The stone has a height of 1.40 m, a width of 1.1 m and a thickness of 0.60 m. On the south side it has a small, 6 cm deep borehole, which was probably made for a planned but not carried out blast.

literature

Büchner et al .: Cadastre of boulders and large stones. In: Boulders and large stones in Saxony-Anhalt (= information on the geology of Saxony-Anhalt. ) Supplement 7, 2004.
Konrad Schuberth: Geological conditions and landscape forms. In: W. Damisch, G. Villwock (Hrsg.): Contributions to nature, land use and economy of the nature park "Unteres Saale Valley" (= work from the nature park "Unteres Saale valley." Volume 5). Halle (Saale) 1997, pp. 10-28 ( PDF ).

Web links

tw.strahl.org: Menhir "Dicker Stein", Piesdorf near Belleben

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. for example Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957.
^ Konrad Schuberth: Geological conditions and landscape forms. P. 25.
↑ ^a ^b Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt. P. 82.

[1] Cf. for example Waldtraut Schrickel : Western European elements in the Neolithic and in the early Bronze Age of Central Germany. Part I. Catalog. Publications of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, Volume 5, VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1957.

[2] Konrad Schuberth: Geological conditions and landscape forms. P. 25.

[Denkmalliste-3] Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt. P. 82.